One in 10 Gen Zers want their boss to be replaced by AI—they’re already being po

Amid the frenzy that AI will result in mass job losses, there's one role Gen Zers are secretly hoping the bots will replace: their boss. And 69% are already being polite to ChatGPT just in case.

A 2025 study from essay writing service EduBirdie highlights that one in 10 Gen Z workers are pining for a robot boss.

While wishing for the demise of a manager is nothing new, what's eye-opening is the reasons why they think the likes of ChatGPT and Gemini would make for a better manager. For one, they ironically think it'd be more human.

Most of the Gen Zers said that AI will be a nicer, fairer, and more neutral boss.

While some think a virtual manager would be a lot smarter than the current human one they have, others predict they'd be able to manipulate AI management easily.

Worryingly, some respondents reported that an AI boss "won't hit on me" and would be "less scary."

And whether or not workers are actually destined to report into robots any time soon, 70% of the 2,000 young Americans surveyed are already hedging their bets—one 'please' at a time.

Despite Gen Z's wishes, managers are more likely to be replaced by peers who use AI, as opposed to AI itself. A separate 2025 surv

Fuente original: Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/one-10-gen-zers-want-104951141.html)